Democracy In Action

I just loooooooooooove how great this country is. Once again, we get dragged down to the lowest common denominator. Numerical minority? No problem! Come to Amerika & spoil the fun for the rest of us!

When you get to be the majority remember to NOT let us do the same since we all know you won't let us pull the same crap. Au revoir, traditional America. It was fun while it lasted.

Coming soon to a region near you, the Fractured States of America.

Other Sports Quick Update

New York Rangers' new season starts on Thursday evening against the Florida Panthers. The Rangers have finalized their opening roster & I'm glad that both Marc Staal & Ryan Callahan made the 1st roster for the opening season!

No surprises in net as King Henrik & Valiquette make the team as netminders. Montoya probably would've made it except for the cap hit he'd entail for the Rangers if he made the roster.

Hopefully the Rangers can build on their late season success & go beyond their 2nd round exit to Buffalo last year.

It's almost GO time!

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Arsenal have already played 7 EPL matches & somewhat surprisingly have 6 wins & a draw to head the EPL heading into October.

Without Thierry Henry who was sold off to Barca in August too. A case of addition by subtraction perhaps? No doubting Thierry Henry was obviously one of the best strikers in the world during his time at Arsenal but the Gunners also had a propensity to rely too much on his goalscoring perhaps. So now with him not in the side maybe it's a case of the younger Gunners stepping up & assuming more of the leadership & goalscoring roles, especially Cesc Fabregas.

They've also made a great start in the Champions' League by beating other favorite in their group to advance, Sevilla, 3-0 & face Romanian side Steaua Bucharest tonight.

All goalz are belonging to Cesc Fabregas

METS CHOKE

Like a rookie hooker trying to deep throat John Holmes, the Mets CHOKED.

I miss the old crappy showtune type songs

Worst part about losing?
Being put to a video for a dinky ballad by Fuel!!!

After Dinner Mints, Week 5

Well, .500 in both SU & ATS this week which was incredibly interesting & kooky with all the upsets & top 10 team losses. I think I read 7 of the top 13 lost? That's caaaaaawazy!

USF +7 West Virginia
USF 21, West Virginia 13
SU: Won; ATS: Won
Look alive! USF is currently the best collegiate team in Florida! Whodathunkit?!

Arizona St. -14.5 over Stanford
Arizona St. 41, Stanford 3
SU: Won; ATS: Won; LOW: Won

Auburn +18 vs. Florida
Auburn 20, Florida 17
SU: Lost; ATS: Won

Bama +2.5 vs. FSU
Florida St. 21, Bama 14
SU: Lost; ATS: Lost
Two losses in a row for Savior Saban... Bwahahahahahaha. Tuscalosers!

LSU -40 over Tulane
LSU 34, Tulane 9
SU: Won; ATS: Lost
Sleepy time over! LSU absolutely slept walked through the Tulane game. I blame those hypnotic & awful pelican logos on those weird purple unis... Die White Helmets!

Louisville -8 over NC State
Louisville 29, NC State 10
SU: Won; ATS: Won
Stop the presses! Louisville's D held somebody under 20!!!!

Troy -12.5 over ULM
Troy 24, ULM 7
SU: Won; ATS: Won

Penn St. -3 over Illinois
Illinois 27, Penn St. 20
SU: Lost; ATS: Lost
ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK... I should've gone with my gut & picked the ZOOKster!

Oregon -4.5 over Cal
California 31, Oregon 24
SU: Lost; ATS: Lost

Clemson -3 over Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech 13, Clemson
SU: Lost; ATS: Lost
Geez, can't figure the ACC out!!!

Weekly Record
SU: 5-5, .500
ATS: 5-5, .500
LOW: Won

Season Record
SU: 32-18, .640
ATS: 21-29, .420
LOW: 3-2, .600

Tasty Nuggets, Week 5

No pics, this week b1tches. You want pics, go to cameruci.com.

USF +7 vs. West Virginia- I could bandwagon & steal a reference that USF is using for their game tonight- "Bulls On Parade," but for all his innovative noise style of soloing, TOm Morello of Rage Against The Machine's riffs are sometimes excruciately similiar. So instwad I'll use THe RUnning of the Bulls in Pamplona reference. Which makes Slaton, White & Noel Devine the runners & the Bulls of USF, well, duh, the Bulls. Back-to-back "upsets for USF but I'm unsure if Goudeau makes the box cover of The Running this year. USF 27, West Virginia 25

Arizona St. -14.5 over Stanford- Ok, stay with me here's a short lesson in what is known as synchronicity: Kevin Bacon's last name is obviously Bacon which takes heat to cook. There is plenty of heat in Hell which is where the Devil lives. The Devils are ASU's mascot. The Devil is King Dubya Bush who's Secretary of State is Condoleeza Rice who went to Stanford. Stanford is also where Bill & Hillieary Clinton's daughter Chelsea goes/went to school.

So Stanford has close connections with both the current & most recent former Presidents who have both been accused of telling lies in America. Now, Telling Lies In America was a movie starring... you guessed it... Kevin Bacon. ASU 35, Stanford 20

Auburn +18.5 vs. Florida- Strictly a numbers play. 3 score road underdog in the SEC for a team that was supposed to be pretty good. Now being away from Auburn there will probably be no fieldhouses burned down or strange replay calls overturned by Al Forde. Although it would be interesting to see if T*m T*b*w's power could trump the Masonic-like authority of SEC referee good ol' boy empire. Florida 34, Auburn 21

Bama +2.5 vs. FSU- Wow.... this battel is like wathcing amtachup between Hell (Bama) & Dis (FSU). Dis is the city in Hell from Inferno for you MBA types who might've skipped a medium level or above lit class. Now, I know Tallahassee isn't a city in Hell (Bama) but both Hell (Bama) & DIs (Tallahassee) are both "The Suck" which is a waterbody feature located in Alabama. Which sucks. Or something. I got alittle confused there for a second... Bama 20, FSU 17

LSU -40 over Tulane- Is LSU trying to get on TLC's What Not To Wear show? B/c those benefit uniforms they'll be wearing this saturday are utterly atrocious looking. Stacy & Clinton would throw those duds out in a New York minute. Although I guess you can wear whatever you want when Tulane will be starting a 3rd string QB in a move that nis not only desperate but nepotism. Bah, dat Scelfo at QB is da lil' boy o' da coach, Scelfo. LSU 45, Tulane 0

Louisville -8 over NC State- Even though I'd like to pick my angry wolfpack cousins at NC State in this one, the recent dismal of famed lobster & townie girl lovin' Willie Williams from L'ville's team will have the Redbirds fired up for this one. "And the last thing he [Ol' Willie] said to me, 'Coach Krags [Kragthorpe], 'sometime when the team is up against the po-po and the law are beating the boyz, tell them to go out there & smoke all the blunts they got & win just one for the Willster.' " Lousiville 38, NC State 28

Troy -12.5 over Louisiana-Monroe- Louisiana-Monroe's abbreviation is ULM. Ulm is a city in Germany. That has nothing to do with anything except that's all I could come up with for this pick. Oh, that & my mom went to ULM except back in those days it was called "Northeast Lousiana University," or NLU which is NOT a city in Germany. Troy 31, ULM 17

Penn St. -3 at Illinois- Oh snicka snap, the ZOOKster making the Nuggets for the 1st time this year! If nothing more than I can make a stupid reference off his name. Will Penn St. lose to the good recruiting, fratboy fight picking, ill-executed bubble screen calling [name redacted]ster? You betta ask somebody. Click clack? Aw hell naw, Zook zack... almost. Penn St. 24, Illernoise 20

Oregon -4.5 over Cal- Hippie Bowl. No, relax, Jake, not that kind of 'bowl.' I'll be blunt in this pick.... what? No, relax, Jake, not that kind of 'blunt.' The winner in this win will be the 2nd most dope in the Pac10 next to USC. What? No, relax, Jake, not that kind of 'dope.' Oregon 42, Cal 38, 2OT

Clemson -3 at Georgia Tech- Hey, riddle me this- if Boise can have a blue field, why can't Clemson have an orange field? THey should do that. The could rename it the Orange Grove & relinquish any claim to the "Death Valley" nomenclature. What? You expected to get an episode of the nuggets w/o me being sesquipedalian least once? Yes, I know this game is in Hotlanta.... so why doesn't GaTech have a gold field then?... They could get Sting to do Fields of Gold as the theme song... then of course Sting could visit the sororities & drop his 7-hour tantric lovemaking sessions on dem lasses. Ok, I'm ramblin'... a ramblin' wreck, so to speak... Enough punage pwnage? Clemson 33, Georgia Tech 24

Fargin Broken Record With The Mets

Mets playoff hopes?

The Mets' Red Soxesque collapse continues. 3 games left & now they're tied with the Filthies. Super uber fricking duper craptastic. Can't even win with Peddddrrrrrrro.... I *weep* again.

But hey on the more downside the Fillies close the season with the Nationals, so you know they got that going for them while the Mets will probably get swept in their 3 games even if they end up playing the Hoboken Youth 11 for the Parapalegic. As in cripples which the Mets are looking like lately. I said "cripples." Eat me, political correctness. Especially if you're a politically correct cripple. Hey! Look at that! Something else...

G. D. Mets

Yes, The Mets have lost again last night. The Fillies lead is down to 1, 4 games left. Mets are running out of arms & are giving up runs like the competitor's brand paint in the old Krylon commercials.

Mets lost, 9-6 to Washington. Filliedelphia beat Hotlanta, 6-2.

I *weep* for the Mets.

After Dinner Mints, Week 4

Another satisfied customer,
Tasty Nuggets must be tainted this year

Texas A&M +3 vs. Miami (FL)
Miami 34, Texs A&M 17 SU: Lost; ATS: Lost
Holy schnikees I was wrong about A&M. Got no excuses other than I must've been really delusional!

Georgia +3 vs. Bama
Georgia 26, Bama 23 (OT) SU: Won; ATS: Lost
Last play loss in OT for Bama. Like I said Bammers, with Saban get used to this b/c Saban DOES have time for last minute losses.

Kentucky +6.5 vs. Arkansas
Kentucky 42, Arkansas 29 SU: Won; ATS: Won
Woo! Kentucky continuing to make me look sort of savvy, savvy?

Florida -21 over Ole Miss
Florida 30, Ole Miss 24 SU: Won; ATS: Lost; LOW: Lost
God dangit, Tebow, you might as well lost the game so I'd've felt better for dragging my ATS record down! Some savior!

Georgia Tech -3 over Virginia
Virginia 28, Georgia Tech 23 SU: Lost; ATS; Lost
Krikey! Is Reggie Ball back? Did he find another year of eligibility? I guess GaTech will flop this year. I thought they had a decent team working but 2 consecutive losses have stunk that up.

LSU -16.5 over South Carolina
LSU 28, South Carolina 16 SU: Won; ATS: Lost
A perfect example of a game where the score doesn't reflect the difference in the 2 teams. Yes, USCe had a shot to cut it to 21-14 with a dropped pick six but then again if we're going to play the "if" game, I could point out several plays LSU could've made which would've negated any USCe "if" plays... not to mention the penalty not called on the 3rd & 13 for the receiver not getting set before the snap when South Carolina broke off a 37 yd. gain on a pass to the back...

Notre Dame +13.5 vs. Michigan St.
Michigan St. 31, Notre Dame 14 SU: Won; ATS: Lost
Notre Dame is BAD. What else is there to say?

Michigan +2.5 vs. Penn St.
Michigan 14, Penn St. 9 SU: Won; Lost: Won
Best part about this win for Michigan? Herb Kirkstreit's Big 10 champ pick lost to the team that got beat by a I-AA. Plus, a bunch of PSU kids are boo-hooing over this. "O-ver-ra-ted?... " Ha! PSU fans cheering this after Michigan's loss to AppSt. were Pre-ma-ture clap-clap clap-clap-clap Pre-ma-ture clap-clap clap-clap-clap

USC -24.5 over Washington St.
USC 47, Washington St. 14 SU: Won; ATS: Won
Yawn.

Washington +5.5 vs. UCLA
UCLA 44-Washington 31 SU: Lost; ATS: Lost
Yawn Pt. Deux

Weekly Record:
SU: 7-3
ATS: 3-7
LOW: 0-1

Season Record:
SU: 27-13, .675
ATS: 16-24, .400
LOW: 2-2, .500

Another Great Mark Steyn Article

Mark Steyn: Bend over for Nurse Hillary

By MARK STEYN

Syndicated columnist

Our theme for today comes from George W Bush: “Freedom is the desire of every human heart.”
When the president uses the phrase, he’s invariably applying it to various benighted parts of the Muslim world. There would seem to be quite a bit of evidence to suggest that freedom is not the principal desire of every human heart in, say, Gaza or Waziristan. But why start there? If you look in, say, Brussels or London or New Orleans, do you come away with the overwhelming impression that “freedom is the desire of every human heart”? A year ago, I wrote that “the story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government ‘security,’ large numbers of people vote to dump freedom – the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, seat belts and a ton of other stuff.”
Last week freedom took another hit. Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled her new health care plan. Unlike her old health care plan, which took longer to read than most cancers take to kill you, this one’s instant and painless – just a spoonful of government sugar to help the medicine go down. From now on, everyone in America will have to have health insurance.
Hooray!
And, if you don’t, it will be illegal for you to hold a job.
Er, hang on, where’s that in the Constitution? It’s perfectly fine to employ legions of the undocumented from Mexico, but if you employ a fit 26-year-old American with no health insurance either you or he or both of you will be breaking the law?
That’s a major surrender of freedom from the citizen to the state. “So what?” says the caring crowd. “We’ve got to do something about those 40 million uninsured! Whoops, I mean 45 million uninsured. Maybe 50 by now.” This figure is always spoken of as if it’s a club you can join but never leave: The very first Uninsured-American was ol’ Bud who came back from the Spanish-American War and found he was uninsured and so was first on the list, and then Mabel put her back out doing the Black Bottom at a tea dance in 1926 and she became the second, and so on and so forth, until things really began to snowball under the Bush junta. And, by the time you read this, the number of uninsured may be up to 75 million.
Nobody really knows how many “uninsured” there are: Two different Census Bureau surveys conducted in the same year identify the number of uninsured as A) 45 million or B) 19 million. The first figure is the one you hear about, the second figure apparently entered the Witness Protection Program. Of those 45 million “uninsured Americans,” the Census Bureau itself says over 9 million aren’t Americans at all, but foreign nationals. They have various health care back-ups: If you’re an uninsured Canadian in Detroit, and you get an expensive chronic disease, you can go over the border to Windsor, Ontario, and re-embrace the delights of socialized health care; if you’re an uninsured Uzbek, it might be more complicated. Of the remaining 36 million, a 2005 Actuarial Research analysis for the Department of Health and Human Services says that another 9 million did, in fact, have health coverage through Medicare.
Where are we now? 27 million? So who are they? Bud and Mabel and a vast mountain of emaciated husks of twisted limbs and shriveled skin covered in boils and pustules? No, it’s a rotating population: People who had health insurance but changed jobs, people who are between jobs, young guys who feel they’re fit and healthy and at this stage of their lives would rather put a monthly health-insurance tab towards buying a home or starting a business or blowing it on booze ’n’ chicks.
That last category is the one to watch: Americans 18-34 account for 18 million of the army of the “uninsured.” Look, there’s a 22-year-old, and he doesn’t have health insurance! Oh, the horror and the shame! What an indictment of America!
Well, he doesn’t have life insurance, either, or homeowner’s insurance. He lives a life blessedly free of the tedious bet-hedging paperwork of middle age. He’s 22, and he thinks he’s immortal – and any day now Hillary will propose garnishing his wages for her new affordable mandatory life-insurance plan.
So, out of 45 million uninsured Americans, 9 million aren’t American, 9 million are insured, 18 million are young and healthy. And the rest of these poor helpless waifs trapped in Uninsured Hell waiting for Hillary to rescue them are, in fact, wealthier than the general population. According to the Census Bureau’s August 2006 report on “Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage,” 37 percent of those without health insurance – that’s 17 million people – come from households earning more than $50,000. Nineteen percent – 8.7 million people – of those downtrodden paupers crushed by the brutal inequities of capitalism come from households earning more than $75,000.
In other words, if they fall off the roof, they can write a check. Indeed, the so-called “explosion” of the uninsured has been driven entirely by wealthy households opting out of health insurance. In the decade after 1995 – i.e., since the last round of coercive health reform – the proportion of the uninsured earning less than $25,000 has fallen by 20 percent, and the proportion earning more than 75 grand has increased by 155 percent. The story of the past decade is that the poor are getting sucked into the maw of “coverage,” and the rich are fleeing it. And, given that the cost of health “insurance” bears increasingly little relationship to either the cost of treatment or the actuarial reality of you ever getting any particular illness, it’s entirely rational to say: “You know what? I’ll worry about that when it happens. In the meantime, I want to start a business and send my kid to school.” Freedom is the desire of my human heart even if my arteries get all clogged and hardened.
I was glad, at the end of Hillary Health Week, to see that my radio pal Laura Ingraham’s excellent new book, “Power To The People,” has shot into the New York Times bestseller list at No. 1. It takes a fraudulent leftist catchphrase (the only thing you can guarantee about a “people’s republic” is that the people are the least of it) and returns it to those who mean it – to those who believe in a nation of free citizens exercising individual liberty to make responsible choices.
Do you remember the so-called “government surplus” of a few years ago? Bill Clinton gave a speech in which he said, yes, sure, he could return the money to taxpayers but that we “might not spend it the right way.” The American political class has decided that they know better than you the “right way” to make health care decisions. Oh, don’t worry, you’re still fully competent to make decisions on what car you drive and what movie you want to rent at Blockbuster.
For the moment.
But when it comes to the grownup stuff, best to leave that to Nurse Hillary.

What The F#ck?! Columbia Dean

Well, there you have it, Columbia University Dean, basically admitting their Leftist tendencies. Inviting Hitler to "debate" if he were alive? Really? And pray tell what little academic excuse would be used for the murder of 6 million Jews? Or is Coatsworth a Holocaust denier or Anti-Semite? Inviting Hitler to debate? RIDICULOUS.